| Marlborough Road | |
|---|---|
 The station building in 2008 | |
  Marlborough Road Location of Marlborough Road in Central London | |
| Location | St John's Wood |
| Owner | |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Key dates | |
| 13 April 1868 (1868-04-13) | Opened |
| 20 November 1939 (1939-11-20) | Closed |
| Replaced by | St John's Wood |
| Other information | |
| Coordinates | 51°32′12″N0°10′33″W / 51.53666°N 0.17593°W /51.53666; -0.17593 |
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Marlborough Road is adisusedLondon Underground station inSt John's Wood, northwestLondon NW8, England. It opened in April 1868[1] on the Metropolitan & St. John's Wood Railway, the first northward extension fromBaker Street of theMetropolitan Railway (now theMetropolitan line). It is located at the junction ofFinchley Road and Queen's Grove.[2]
In the mid-1930s, the Metropolitan line was suffering congestion at the south end of its main route, where trains from its many branches shared the limited capacity betweenFinchley Road and Baker Street. To ease this congestion, new deep-level tunnels were constructed between Finchley Road and theBakerloo line tunnels at Baker Street; then, commencing on 20 November 1939,[1] the Metropolitan's services towardStanmore were transferred to the Bakerloo line (they are now on theJubilee line) and ran to Baker Street through the new tunnels.
Upon the transfer, Marlborough Road station was closed and replaced bySt John's Wood station, then on the Bakerloo line;[3] it had been little used, except (owing to its close proximity toLord's Cricket Ground) during the cricket season.[3]
Shots of the remains of the platforms, and an outside shot of the station building and booking hall—which at the time was in use as a steak restaurant—were included inMetro-Land, a 1973 documentary presented byJohn Betjeman. The building housed a Chinese restaurant until 2009[4] and now contains asubstation installed as part of the power upgrade programme to support the introduction ofS stock on the Metropolitan line.[3]
Marlborough Road itself was renamedMarlborough Place in the 1950s.[3]
Other Metropolitan line stations that closed with the opening of the new Bakerloo tunnels:
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| Swiss Cottage | Metropolitan line | Lord's towardsBaker Street orAldgate | ||
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